Gothic brick buildings

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This list is as complete a compilation of all buildings as possible that were built and designed with brick in the style epoch of the Gothic and the principles of this style .

The term " brick Gothic " is often used in northern Germany and the Baltic Sea region for the Gothic brick buildings there.

This approach ignores the fact that there are Gothic brick buildings, some of which are very similar, some of which are completely different, in some other areas of Germany and Europe. So it is not surprising that people in Flanders speak of the “typical brick Gothic of the coastal area” (“de typical baksteengotiek van de kuststreek”). The database of the Dutch Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed also has the remark “striking stuk baksteengotiek” next to a church. Similarly, Gothic brick structures in southern Germany are naturally classified as brick Gothic .

In particular, the brick Gothic in the Netherlands, on the Lower Rhine and in Flanders is seamlessly connected to that in northern Germany, Denmark and Poland, with some buildings with more in common than between the very diverse structures in the Baltic Sea region.

In the history of the reception, next to the term “Brick Gothic” ( without addition) was the term “North German Brick Gothic”. This designation is politically unproblematic for buildings in German federal states.

Lists

The number of entries in the list is given for each country and region. The present lists come very close to a complete coverage. The number of entries therefore provides an indication of the extent of a country or region's holdings of medieval buildings made of or with visible brick in the Gothic style. Some of the entries so counted include more than one building, e.g. B. several town houses or several city gates of a city.

For all of Europe there are 5934 entries.

Regional breakdowns

Detailed distribution maps - Atlas of Brick Gothic

All places in Europe with Gothic brick buildings are registered here, including less than 15% with Mediterranean brick styles.
The interactive maps are not well suited for mobile devices because the place names are not displayed there. That is why there are also maps without a dialog function, created from screenshots of the interactive maps.
With interactive maps, the software only allows a little over 300 location points. This is why maps created from screenshots can combine several interactive maps.
Where the cuts of the interactive and non-interactive map are the same, the screenshot is shown in a small representation at the bottom of the side of the interactive map.

See also

literature

  • Hans Josef Böker: The medieval brick architecture of Northern Germany . Darmstadt 1988, ISBN 3-534-02510-5 .
  • Angela Pfotenhauer, Elmar Lixenfeld: Brick Gothic . Monuments edition. Monument publications of the German Foundation for Monument Protection, Bonn 2000. Revised. Edition 2005 4 , ISBN 978-3-936942-10-1 .
  • Johannes Cramer and Dorothée Sack (eds.): Technology of brick construction in Europe in the Middle Ages , 2004/2005, ISBN 978-3-937251-99-8 , among others:
    • Jens Christian Holst: Stone or not stone? Brick and natural stone in the southern Baltic region during the Middle Ages.
    • Jürg Goll: Brick building in the central Alpine region.
    • Claudia Trummer: Bricks in the periphery? Romanesque brick buildings in Saxony and southern Brandenburg.
    • Jan van der Hoeve: Brick in the Netherlands.
    • David Andrews: The use and manufacture of brick in eastern England in the Middle Ages.

Web links

Commons : Brick Gothic  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inventory bouwkundig erfgoed (Belgium) - Parochiekerk Sint-Jan (in Poperinge) , third paragraph: "... de typical baksteengotiek van de kuststreek".
  2. ↑ https://cultureelerfgoed.nl/monumenten/25809
  3. ↑ Schnell und Steiner publishing group: Günther Knesch - St. Martin zu Landshut : "... one of the most important works of brick Gothic in Bavaria."